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darkness. Giving birth had killed her.
    As Elizabeth lay dead, the demonic baby stopped whining. Its body grew and transformed slowly. It was a toddler for a moment, the next it was in adolescence. It grew until it was a full grown young adult, a man in his early twenties. He looked at Elizabeth with a placid look devoid of any emotion and dug his nails into his wrist, piercing a vein.
    “ Drink mother,” he said.
    Droplets of blood plopped onto her pallid lifeless cheek and then into her open mouth. Her eyelids flung open immediately, and she followed the stream of blood with an opened mouth up to the demon’s wrist. She kissed his wrist with her delicate lips and fed. An odd memory flooded into her mind. She could see his memory, a child growing into a man. He had decided to save her, but why?
    “ That's enough,” he told her and drew back. “I'm growing weak.”
    “ Who are you?” she asked as she wiped crimson blood from her lips.
    “ I have no name,” he said.
    “ Why did you save me?”
    “ Because you’re my mother.”
    At first she felt terrified, but her fear was quickly replaced with joy. She had a son! She wasn’t lonely anymore! Elizabeth didn’t care how it had happened, that he was a monster, all she knew is he had saved her life.
    “ My beautiful baby boy; I shall call you Alucard. My father’s name spelled backwards,” she said and placed her slim feminine hand onto his chiseled jaw. “You shall be a better man than he ever was. But my son …”
    “ Yes mother?” he asked.
    “ I'm thirsty for more.”
    “ Then lets feed.”
    He took her hand like a loving child and helped her out of bed. He led her out of her home into the backyard. He was bare naked, but the midnight chill did not affect him, nor Elizabeth, even though all she wore was a silk night gown. They both looked to the night sky. It was speckled with a myriad of magnificent stars flaunting their glory to all the world.
    Elizabeth strangely knew what to do. Her body became lighter; it felt as if she was made of the very air that caressed her. The ground became further away and gravity became an option rather than a law. They slowly ascended into the black heavens like a pair of dark angels and flew off towards the inner city to quench their thirst.
    The view from the heavens was breath taking, it seemed so surreal to be above it all. Elizabeth always wished she could fly, to fly away from al l of her troubles, and from the cruel unforgiving world she had become so well acquainted with. Feeling the wind rush by her body as she and her demonic son surfed the clouds was exhilarating; she never felt so alive. It was funny to her. In her entire life she had never felt alive until she was undead.
    She looked at her son, Alucard. His shoulder length hair was as black as the wings of a raven, and swayed violently in the wind. Moonlight shimmered and reflected off his supple bare body as if he was made of water rather than flesh. He was as handsome as the stranger that gave her the book, and she felt proud that she had created such a being, her beautiful boy.
    Her entire life Elizabeth had been a devout Christian, she had been the perfect woman, yet her God would not answer her prayers. She often prayed for a child of her own. To her astonishment it was an incubus, a devil who answered her prayers, not God.
    “ There mother in the alleyway,” Alucard said, only it came from his mind rather than his luscious lips. They were flying too fast to communicate verbally. “You see the prostitute and her client?”
    “ Yes son,” Elizabeth said using telepathy, although she wasn't sure how she knew how to do it; she really didn't know how she was flying for that matter. It seemed to be hardwired into her being. What was even more surprising was her hawk like vision. She could see their prey even though they were miles up in the night sky.
    “ Which one do you want?” Alucard asked as they descended towards the small city.
    “ I'll take